Plot Summary
This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- L'Aube des Damnés
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- fr
Where to watch free (US)
No free providers found in US.
Production Companies
Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA)
